The effects of pick density on order picking areas with narrow aisles

IIE Transactions (Institute of Industrial Engineers)

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 859-868

  Gue, Kevin ^a   Meller, Russell ^b   Skufca, Joseph ^c  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

^c CLARKSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM PROCESSES; SAMPLING; WORK SIMPLIFICATION;

COST AND SERVICE PERFORMANCE; ORDER PICKING; PICK DENSITY; SPACE UTILIZATION;

OPERATIONS RESEARCH;

EID: 33746452243     PISSN: 0740817X     EISSN: 15458830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07408170600809341     Document Type: Article

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